The Lucky Aiyedatiwa Campaign Organisation Foot Soldiers Independent Council (LACO-FSIC) has said that a long list of achievements of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa in only six months in office is enough for the group to campaign with, ahead of the November 16 governorship election. The governor’s mainstream campaign body issued the statement in Akure on Thursday by its Convener, Dr. Oladipupo Okeyomi, apparently in response to opposition Peoples Democratic Party’s series of articles to lampoon the governor’s readiness for election. In the riposte issued through the LACO-FSIC spokesman, Mr. Kayode Fasua, Okeyomi, popularly known as Carry Go, stated that Aiyedatiwa is…
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…extol ex-gov’s virtues Osun State Youths under the aegis of Congress of Progressive Youth (COPY) has berated the state’s chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party over its poor rating of the immediate past governor of Osun State and current Minister of Marine and Blue Economy, Alhaji Isiaka Adegboyega Oyetola, in the President Bola Tinubu-led Federal cabinet. COPY said that the PDP as a party had been blind folded by the politics of bitterness, which they were known for, to rate Oyetola as one of the poor performing ministers of President Tinubu in the last one year of the administration. The…
The meeting of the Tripartite Committee on Minimum Wage has resumed talks at the Nicon Luxury Hotel in Abuja on Wednesday, June 5, to continue discussions over a new minimum wage for workers in the nation.The federal government was represented by Wale Edun, the Minister of Finance; Atiku Bagudu, the Minister of Budget and National Planning; Nkeiruka Onyejeocha, the Minister of Labour; and representatives of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, along with the Head of Service of the Federation. Joe Ajaero, the president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), and Festus Osifo, the President of the Trade…
The Niger State Ministry of Mineral Resources has released the names of 14 persons said to be trapped in a collapsed mine pit. The mine owned by the African Mineral and Logistics Limited collapsed on Sunday following a downpour at the Galkogo community in Shiroro Local Government Area. In a statement on Wednesday, the information officer of the ministry, Dibie Maureen, released the list in which she said the Commissioner, Garba Yahaya, highlighted the lack of compliance and synergy between the mining company’s Management Director and the district head. The statement partly reads, “The district head of Galkogo village confirmed…
President Bola Tinubu says Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has stopped dancing and singing, but he keeps performing. The President said this when he inaugurated the extension of the Inner Southern Expressway (ISEX) and the Outer Southern Expressway (OSEX) to the Southern Parkway, popularly known as Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Expressway, in Abuja, on Wednesday. Represented by Vice-President Kashim Shettima, Tinubu also lauded Wike’s appointment as FCT minister as one of the best political appointment since the beginning of this current democratic dispensation. He said; “Today’s commissioning is the fourth completed road that we have proudly unveiled…
Nigeria taking Binance executive hostage – US lawmakers US lawmakers have accused Nigeria of taking a Binance Holdings Ltd. executive, Tigran Gambaryan, “hostage”. They are urging President Joe Biden to help secure his release. Sixteen Republican congressmen including Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Michael McCaul wrote to Biden to have the case of Gambaryan referred to the Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Hostage Affairs. A US citizen, Gambaryan, is head of financial crime compliance at Binance and has been held in Abuja since April 2024. Bloomberg reports that the lawmakers wrote in a June 4 letter,…
Fuel subsidy is projected to gulp about N5.4 trillion in 2024, according to the federal government. This is against the N3.6 trillion budgeted for the same intervention in 2023. A draft copy report of the Accelerated Stabilization and Advancement Plan (ASAP) presented to President Tinubu by the finance minister, Wale Edun, on Tuesday, showed that the estimated expenditure on fuel subsidy for 2024 is N5.4 trillion, a sum of N1.8 trillion more than the amount spent in 2023. The ASAP was designed to address key challenges affecting the reform initiatives and stimulate development in various sectors of the economy. “At…
Police in Niger State say no fewer than 14 miners are still trapped under the ruble of a collapsed mining pit in Galkogo community, Shiroro Local Government Area of the state. The mining site operated by ‘African Minerals and Logistics Limited’ caved in after a heavy downpour during which 50 workers got trapped inside the rubble. The mine collapsed on Sunday evening during which one of the miners lost his life in the accident while six others were seriously injured. Six of the miners were said to have escaped unhurt. A team of Police operatives led by the Commissioner of…
Agency Report Customers of the liquidated Heritage Bank gathered at the bank’s headquarters in Lagos on Wednesday, to seek clarification on the beginning of their deposit payments. A visit by a News Agency of Nigeria correspondent revealed that security personnel stationed at the bank’s entrance prevented customers from entering the premises. Addressing the customers through the gate, an official informed them that payments had begun for savings account holders and wouldcontinue until Friday. “You don’t need to take any action. NDIC staff are already processing payments. Your money will be transferred to your other account linked with your BVN,” the…
…says ‘probe is jaundiced, should be disregarded as politically motivated hatchet job’ Immediate past governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has dismissed the report by the Kaduna State House of Assembly recommending his prosecution, saying it’s scandalous. The Assembly had recommended that El-Rufai be prosecuted for abuse of office and money laundering in his administration. Reacting to his former principal’s indictment by the ad hoc committee of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, El-Rufai’s Special Adviser on Media and Communication, Muyiwa Adekeye, affirmed the former governor’s integrity while dismissing what he described as “scandalous claims being aired as the report…